Olympic gold medalist US men's hockey team visits White House to celebrate historic win over Canada

Team USA's Olympic golden medal-winning men's hockey squad arrived astatine the White House for their gathering with President Donald Trump connected Tuesday, arsenic the players are besides expected to be Trump's State of the Union address. 

The squad made past with its 2-1 overtime triumph implicit Team Canada astatine the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics successful the golden medal crippled connected Sunday. New Jersey Devils prima Jack Hughes deed the aureate extremity to present the U.S. its archetypal men's hockey golden medal since the 1980 Miracle connected Ice team. 

Canada has historically been the astir ascendant Olympic hockey squad successful history, with a world-best 9 golden medals. Sunday's triumph besides avenged a nonaccomplishment to Canada successful the NHL's 4 Nations Face Off accumulation successful aboriginal 2025, which came amid heightened tensions betwixt the 2 countries implicit Trump's tariff policy. 

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Trump called the players aft Sunday's win, congratulating and thanking them during the locker country celebration.

Trump told the men's squad aft inviting them to Tuesday's State of the Union that he'd "have" to invitation the women's team, different "I astir apt would beryllium impeached." The players laughed successful effect to Trump's joke. 

Video of the speech has since gone viral, with immoderate women's hockey fans criticizing Trump and the men's players for making airy of the women's team's golden medal victory, which besides came against Canada. The women's squad has since declined Trump's invitation to Washington, citing scheduling conflicts. 

Dylan Larkin and Zach Werenski opened up astir wherever their American pridefulness came from arsenic they celebrated their Olympic accomplishment.

President Donald Trump talks to members of the United States men's hockey squad astatine the White House successful Washington, District of Columbia, connected Feb. 24, 2026. (Dan Scavino via X)

Larkin and Werenski appeared connected Fox News Channel’s "Fox & Friends" connected Tuesday morning, hours aft celebrating their golden medal triumph against Canada successful Miami. The 2 opened up connected what it meant to them to correspond the Stars and Stripes.

"I deliberation a batch of america played astatine the U.S. National Team Development Program … When we were there, you get to enactment the jersey connected each time for 2 years, earlier you’re drafted. We spell done training. We’re not subject by immoderate means but they enactment america done immoderate training, and they truly instill successful you immoderate pride," Larkin said. "Once you spell done that, you instrumentality the jersey disconnected … and each clip you instrumentality it off, for maine astatine least, I don’t cognize the adjacent clip I’m going to enactment it on.

"So, each clip I get the accidental to correspond the United States of America, I enactment that jersey on, I’m each in. I emotion doing it, and it’s conscionable thing special. I could spell connected each time astir however large our state is. Just being location and seeing our friends and family, it’s conscionable special."

Werenski was asked whether playing successful different countries made him much arrogant to beryllium an American.

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United States' Jack Hughes (86), who scored the winning overtime goal, celebrates aft defeating Canada successful the men's crystal hockey golden medal crippled astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics successful Milan, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026.  (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

"I deliberation you’re spot on. I retrieve my archetypal World Championships with him was successful Slovakia. I’ve been to Denmark, I’ve been to Czech (Republic) – these are each large countries, and you play successful them, and it’s a ton of fun. The Olympics were successful Italy were successful Italy, which is an unbelievable country," helium said. "You get reminded of however large the United States of America is erstwhile you get backmost here. And we emotion representing our country, we emotion wearing those colors.

"Like Dylan said, we larn astir it from a young age. We’re allowed to unrecorded retired our imagination due to the fact that of the subject – the radical that serve, the archetypal responders. It’s conscionable an unthinkable country. It’s the champion state successful the world, and we emotion wearing these colors, and you decidedly get an appreciation for it erstwhile you spell overseas and play."

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